Salman Rushdie Quotes

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.